Isaiah 66:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

ISAIAH CHAPTER 66 God is served with the Spirit, and not by ceremonies, Isaiah 66:1-4, the wonderful birth and benefits of the gospel church, Isaiah 66:5-14. Severe judgments against the wicked, Isaiah 66:15-18. The Gentiles shall be a holy church, Isaiah 66:19-23. The eternal punishment of the wicked, Isaiah 66:24. The heaven is my throne; the heaven, that is, the highest heavens, are the place where I most manifest my power and glory, and show myself in my majesty. Psalms 11:4, Psalms 103:19 Matthew 5:34. Hence we are taught to pray, Our Father which art in heaven. And the earth is my footstool, or a place wherein I set my feet, Matthew 5:35. Where is the house that ye build unto me? can there be a house builded that will contain me, who can encompass the heavens and the earth with a house? Where is the place of my rest ? or, where is the place wherein I can be said to rest in a proper sense? The ark is indeed God's footstool, and the place of his rest, in a figurative sense, because there God manifested himself, though in degrees much beneath the manifestations of himself in heaven; but properly, God hath no certain place of rest.